Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-05-10
o FALSE HAIR.
where II Comes From and How II IL
Obtained,

Where II Comes From and How II 10
Obtained.
''Nearly all the false hair that is sold
In this country" said a hair dealer 10 a
reporter recently, lis brought from
France and Germany. II is obtained in
those countries from the peasant girls.
The Berlin and Paris merchants send
their agents out through the country dis
tricts. and whenever one Of these agents
meets a lass with a fine crop Of hair he
Immediately begins to bargain with her.
As a rule the peasants know SO little OF
the world. and are so utterly ignorant of
the value Of things, that they generally
sell their hair at the most ridiculously
low prices. 1t is nothing uncommon to
see a French peasant girl dispose Of the
most magnificent suit Of hair, n suit that
We could sell for So, for a worthless ear
ring or a string Of bright looking beads.
II these merchants meet a girl on the
road whose hair attracts them they never
give the poor girl time TO think, or op-
portunity 10 go home and consult her
parents, hut the moment she says yes,
out come their shears and Off goes her
magnificent hair, and the poor child's
only return is a worthless trinket. 1t
seems sui. hut such is life-at least, hair
merchant life.
After the hair has been all collected
and brought into Paris ard Berlin it is
then put through a cleaning process and
assorted and arranged. On all hair. as it
comes from the head, there is. 10 matter
how clean n person tries TO keep her or
himself, more or less dandruif. The hair
is passed through a sort Of wire net or
chain. the wires of which are SO close to-
gether that the hairs themselves a
scarcely pass through. You would think
this would cut the hair. but it does not.
II only gets the dirt oil, and it does 50
most ~clT,ctuallv. After the hair is thus
thoroughly cleaned it is assorted in pro1cr
colors, qualities and lengths. Then the
black hair is again run over, and three
more piles or heaps are made of 1.-THE
long black hairs, the medium End the
short. The light hair is similarly as
sorted. Then the dealers mix the black
and light hair together and make from
them different shades. by mixing u jet
black, for instance, with a color two
shades lighter than jct black you got a
color exactly one shade LIGHTER. ard lis
is the rule all through the different COM
binations of hair colors. \ color mined
with another color that is two shades
lighter than itself will produce a color
one SHADE lighter. and a shade that APP
pears Ia be perfectly natural. II the
hair is mixed with Q color that is more
than two shades il will produce a streaky
combination. which is. If course. 10 lie
avoided: but when the mixing is prop
erly done not even IN expert can tell the
difference between the real color and the
color that is the result of this skillful
manipulation.
The French are the most expert hair
mixers in the world, and many a blonde
or brown suit Of hair that looks 80 per-
fectly natural is, in reality. the product
of two different heads and il the result Of
the ingenious French hair mixers. What
does q head Of hair cost? Well, Of course.
there is in HAIR. as in everything else. nm
immense variety Of kinds, and conse-
guently an immense variety of prices.
Heads Of hair can he bought as low as
Sl5, and there are many that bring So.
For this latter price | should say that the
very hest suit Of hair that can he found
in Boston can he purchased. 1t does not
cost a woman or. | should probabl, say
in order 10 keep in the fashion, a Mrs.
Lady, as much to pure ae her ha
now as it did three or four wears ago.
The Mrs. Ladies do not wear near 81
much hair now as they did then. rs any
one, even a Mr.. Gentleman. can see by
glancinG at one Of their heads. Conse-
sequently. while il formerly cost a fash
iunable female from 800 to $50 to per-
fectly ad0rn her head. surprising, 81
course, that she had no hair at all 10
start with. the same female can now buy
the very best head gear in Boston At from
$50 Ia So. i, there much false hair
worn in Boston: Oh. an immense deal
Of it. ! indulge in ~ exaggeration wh"n
! say that there are not five women in
100 who Ito not wear some false hair. -
Boston Herald.